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Brielle Shepard knew that the first thing she would see would be Kaidan Alenko's face, just as it had been the last.
He had been the one to find her, after all. He had been the one to gather the crew that searched the wreckage of London to recover her. He had been the one to physically dig her out of the rubble and carry her in his arms all the way to the Alliance hospital. He had been the one who never left her side, who glared and cursed so furiously that nobody dared to question his presence in her room for the three straight weeks she spent asleep.
Despite being doped up on a cocktail of painkillers, Brielle spoke her first words in a calm, clear voice: "You showed up."
"You knew I would, Shepard." He placed a hand on either side of her face, leaned down, and kissed her.
"Doesn't mean I'm not still ..." And she was out.
Brielle continued to fall in and out of consciousness, and Kaidan was always there when she woke up. Alliance brass continued coming in and out the first day after Brielle regained consciousness, hoping to hear about how exactly Commander Shepard had managed to save Earth, but Kaidan never let them question her. As always, he knew exactly what to say to every query and accusation. By the end of the day, he had managed to stymy the flow of officers demanding answers by appealing directly to Admiral Hackett.
He didn't ask her about anything that had happened after she made contact with the Citadel beam. Commander Shepard didn't need to be told or persuaded of the fact that the information was needed by Alliance command: she knew it well enough on her own, and she would speak about it in her own time.
For the better part of the first month, they barely spoke at all. Instead, they held each other's hands or watched the vids being broadcast in her room or simply looked at each other, hardly believing that this was real, that they were both here, together, while the Reapers were not.
Brielle couldn't move. The extent of her injuries was severe; it was doubtful that anyone other than herself could have survived after everything her body had been through. The entire lower half of her body was completely paralyzed, but it was nothing that modern medicine could not fix with time.
Thankfully, Brielle and Kaidan had all the time in the world.
He had been the one to find her, after all. He had been the one to gather the crew that searched the wreckage of London to recover her. He had been the one to physically dig her out of the rubble and carry her in his arms all the way to the Alliance hospital. He had been the one who never left her side, who glared and cursed so furiously that nobody dared to question his presence in her room for the three straight weeks she spent asleep.
Despite being doped up on a cocktail of painkillers, Brielle spoke her first words in a calm, clear voice: "You showed up."
"You knew I would, Shepard." He placed a hand on either side of her face, leaned down, and kissed her.
"Doesn't mean I'm not still ..." And she was out.
Brielle continued to fall in and out of consciousness, and Kaidan was always there when she woke up. Alliance brass continued coming in and out the first day after Brielle regained consciousness, hoping to hear about how exactly Commander Shepard had managed to save Earth, but Kaidan never let them question her. As always, he knew exactly what to say to every query and accusation. By the end of the day, he had managed to stymy the flow of officers demanding answers by appealing directly to Admiral Hackett.
He didn't ask her about anything that had happened after she made contact with the Citadel beam. Commander Shepard didn't need to be told or persuaded of the fact that the information was needed by Alliance command: she knew it well enough on her own, and she would speak about it in her own time.
For the better part of the first month, they barely spoke at all. Instead, they held each other's hands or watched the vids being broadcast in her room or simply looked at each other, hardly believing that this was real, that they were both here, together, while the Reapers were not.
Brielle couldn't move. The extent of her injuries was severe; it was doubtful that anyone other than herself could have survived after everything her body had been through. The entire lower half of her body was completely paralyzed, but it was nothing that modern medicine could not fix with time.
Thankfully, Brielle and Kaidan had all the time in the world.
1 drabble a day for 30 days about Brielle Shepard and Kaidan Alenko, each based on one of 30 chosen words.
The word for Day 12 is KNOWLEDGE.
The word for Day 12 is KNOWLEDGE.
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